From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ben Kallus <benjamin.p.kallus.gr@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.)
Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 14:14:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240520211438.GF27662@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB6pCSYdhxS2hxQE768Pgj62sfNqgM+gY_4L1z3fiyfDXAFPhQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 05:00:40PM -0400, Ben Kallus wrote:
> What I meant was that the LangSec people reject the robustness
> principle as it is commonly understood (i.e., make a "reasonable"
> guess when receiving garbage)
That most certainly is not what I took from what Postel said. And I
say that as someone who designed a distributed system that had client
and server sides and had to make that work across versions from last
week to 10-20 years ago.
I took it more as "Be more and more careful what you say, get that more
correct with each release, but tolerate the less correct stuff you might
get from earlier versions". In no way did I think he meant ``make a
"reasonable" guess when receiving garbage''. Garbage is garbage, you
error on that.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-20 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-20 13:06 [TUHS] A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-20 13:14 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2024-05-20 14:00 ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-20 13:25 ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-20 13:41 ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 14:26 ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-22 13:44 ` arnold
2024-05-20 13:54 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 15:39 ` [TUHS] OT: LangSec (Re: A fuzzy awk.) Åke Nordin
2024-05-20 16:09 ` [TUHS] " Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 20:02 ` John Levine
2024-05-20 20:11 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-20 21:00 ` Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 21:03 ` John R Levine
2024-05-20 21:14 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2024-05-20 21:46 ` Ben Kallus
2024-05-20 21:57 ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-20 16:06 ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Paul Winalski
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